Careless Sally

Calais Sally Careless Sally Careless Sally ~ Thompson

Careless Sally is an American Country Dance. It is a traditional dance with no clear origin. It was interpreted by Ralph Page in 1969. Found in Cracking Chestnuts. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

There is a duple minor variant of this called Calais Sally.

This appears to be based on a dance of the same name found in Thompson, 1785, who writes:

Turn your Partner with your right hand and cast off Turn left hands and cast off another Cu: Lead up to the top and cast off Right and Left

The original music was two 4bar strains.

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), circle, cast, lead (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1969 by Ralph Page. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2020 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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